Paul Ludowigs

Paul Ludowigs (born September 1, 1884 in Cologne , † July 31, 1968 in Wülfrath ) was a German entrepreneur.

Career

Ludowigs studied architecture at the Technical Universities of Hanover and Berlin. He entered the state service as a government construction manager for the Prussian railway administration. In 1917 he moved to the Rheinische Kalksteinwerke Wülfrath (RKW). There he initially took over the management of the branch in Belgium and in 1918 the management. In 1919 he also became managing director of Dolomitwerke . In the company he was a pioneer for the full mechanization of rock mining. He was a member of the NSDAP and was dismissed by the British military authorities in 1946, but was re-admitted to the RKW Supervisory Board in 1947. In 1948 he retired.

Honors

• Honorary citizen of Wülfrath
• Honorary doctorate from the Clausthal mining academy
• 1953: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Ulrich Bauckhage: For example: Wülfrath 1919-49, The path of a small German town through National Socialism . Frohn Verlag, Essen 1988.
• Carl-Friedrich Baumann:  Ludowigs, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 306 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. Arani, Berlin 1955.
• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XV. Edition of Degeners who is it ?. arani Verlags-GmbH., Berlin, 1967, p. 1186.